The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) provides a standard mechanism for support of various authentication methods. This document defines the Command-Codes and AVPs necessary to carry EAP ...

If the challenge of securing a wireless LAN wasn't already confusing enough, things have just gotten worse. The confusion started last month when the Wi-Fi Alliance changed the WPA and WPA2 standards ...

As if Wi-Fi standards are not confusing enough, last week's addition of four widely used Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) types by the Wi-Fi Alliance will make your head spin. While they ...

This short primer will provide a few guidelines to consider when choosing an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method, one element of the authentication component of your Wi-Fi security plan.

In a thread elsewhere about wireless connection problems with a particular adapter, someone recommended looking at certain Services settings, and one of them was the one in the thread title. That ...

Last month, I covered the 802.11 wireless standard and the various options available for wireless networking. This time, let’s look at the principles of securing ...

The result was IEEE standard 802.1x, Port-Based Network Access Control. The 802.1x protocol augments the standard WEP transaction in two ways. First, it improves the initial authentication by ...

What is the best EAP type to use when setting up an enterprise WLAN? Selecting the appropriate Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) method for your wireless network is a pivotal security decision ...

Wireless LANs offer two things central to the adoption of communications technologies: reach and economy. Scalable end-user reach is gained without stringing wires, and the users themselves often feel ...

BANGALORE: Cisco Systems acknowledged security problems with its proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) and has released a new security protocol, that it said eliminates the ...

Baltimore, Md. — SafeNet, Inc., setting the standard for information security, today announced the availability of QuickSec IKEv2 Toolkit, a flexible solution for OEM vendors to integrate the IKEv2 ...

Security researchers at two universities in the USA and at Microsoft have published a vulnerability in the RADIUS network authentication protocol (CVE-2024-3596 ...